Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See buttress, 3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Far.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the operator's shoulder, used in paring the hoofs of horses.

Etymologies

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Related to buttress (noun). From French bouter to push.

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Examples

  • He liked horses well enough, but preferred their hides to their hoofs; and became more skilful with the fleam than the butteris.

    Margaret 1851

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